Media Reports Archive : November 2016


Legal battle over UK's single market membership

The government is facing a legal battle over whether the UK stays inside the single market after it has left the EU, the BBC has learned.

28 Nov 2016 - Media Report: BBC News
Theresa May 'keen to provide certainty' to EU citizens in UK

Theresa May is to meet her Polish counterpart amid calls for clarity on the rights of Poles living in the UK after Brexit.

28 Nov 2016 - Media Report: Sky News
NHS passport checks have tripled income recouped in first scheme

Passport checks on patients before treatment can almost triple the amount of money the NHS can recoup from health tourists, new figures suggest.

23 Nov 2016 - Media Report: Daily Telegraph
Show your passport if you want to use the NHS, patients could be told

Every NHS patient could be asked to show their passport before they receive healthcare, a senior official has said.

22 Nov 2016 - Media Report: Daily Telegraph
Oxford's Migration Observatory: 'Too early' to tell what effect Brexit has had on migrant workers in the UK

Lord Green of Deddington said: 'This is yet another large increase in the labour force driven by an increase in foreign workers.'

21 Nov 2016 - Media Report: Oxford Mail
Asylum claims across European Union pass the one million mark and the final tally for this year is set to top 2015's record figure

The number of asylum claims lodged in the EU this year has passed a million, official figures indicate.

21 Nov 2016 - Media Report: Daily Mail
Brits are stupid! Peer behind Article 50 sparks fury after he says we need MORE migrants because we're not intelligent enough

A peer sparked fury last night after arguing that the country needed immigration because ‘we native Brits are so bloody stupid’.

18 Nov 2016 - Media Report: Daily Mail
Senior Labour figure admits the free movement of people ‘hasn’t worked’ for millions of Britons

Clive Lewis says employers should not be able to undercut the wages of local workers by hiring people from overseas.

18 Nov 2016 - Media Report: The Sun
Nicola Sturgeon 'mess' over Brexit after single market proposal attacked in Scottish Government report she introduced

Scottish government analysis of the Norway plan that concluded this was not a “desirable option” from an economic or democratic perspective.

17 Nov 2016 - Media Report: Daily Telegraph
Foreign born workers take 90% of new jobs in Britain since Brexit

The NUMBER of East Europeans working in Britain has surged by over 50,000 since the bombshell Brexit vote – official figures revealed yesterday.

17 Nov 2016 - Media Report: The Sun
Number of Eastern European migrants working in the UK since Brexit vote has increased, figures show

The number of Eastern Europeans working in the UK has surged since the referendum vote.

16 Nov 2016 - Media Report: Daily Telegraph
Boost for May on free movement: Merkel hints at new migration limit as Boris savages EU's open borders

Angela Merkel has conceded the European Union could overhaul its rules on migration – but only to try to keep Britain in the single market.

16 Nov 2016 - Media Report: Daily Mail
France 'will definitely close UK border at Calais'

Arnaud Danjean said France no longer wanted the 'negative burden' of migrants aiming to cross the Channel being detained on its soil.

14 Nov 2016 - Media Report: BBC News
Theresa May: 'Change is in the air. And when people demand change, it is the job of politicians to respond.'

The Prime Minister will use her first Mansion House address to warn the political class must respond to public fears about immigration.

14 Nov 2016 - Media Report: Daily Mail
Theresa May says migration curbs won't damage trade

Theresa May has insisted the UK can increase international trade while curbing immigration, saying a 'world of opportunities' awaits after Brexit.

10 Nov 2016 - Media Report: BBC News
Immigration topped concerns for Brexit voters

Close to half (47.8%) of those who voted to leave the EU did so because they believed it was 'the only way we can control our borders'.

2 Nov 2016 - Media Report: Euractiv
Call for action to tackle growing ethnic segregation across UK

Politicians must urgently tackle the increasing ethnic polarisation of many of Britain’s towns and cities, according to a senior academic.

2 Nov 2016 - Media Report: The Guardian

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